These resources are subscription-based and require you to login and provide username and passwords. See your Safe Searching handout for this information.
Renaissance and Reformation Collection includes:
Almanac provides extensive background information and includes exploration of both the Italian and Northern Renaissance, the Protestant, Catholic, and Counter Reformations, and much more.
Biographies introduces students to 50 people of the era, including Galileo Galilei, Johannes Gutenberg, Ben Jonson, and others.
Primary Sources allows students to study 18 full or excerpted speeches, diary entries, poems and documents. Also included in this reference library are photographs, maps, sidebars, further reading section, a "Words to Know" section, timeline and index.
http://www.larsdatter.com/sitemap.htm These linkspages will direct you to information on a diverse array of topics relating to the material culture of the Middle Ages and Renaissance – not merely things, but occupations, clothing, animals, tools, eating-utensils … even suggestions for books which may help you learn more about such matters. (The blue widget on the right-hand side of this page will help you keep track of the latest linkspages added to this site.)
http://www.localhistories.org/tudor.html Excellent resource for all things related to life in16th Century England under the Tudors including food, games, clothing, transport, etc. Check it out!
Use a directory when your topic is broad versus specific. For example, use a directory for “Renaissance England” and search engine for “daily life elizabethan england”.
Safe Searching Resources
These resources are subscription-based and require you to login and provide username and passwords. See your Safe Searching handout for this information.
Renaissance and Reformation Collection includes:
Almanac provides extensive background information and includes exploration of both the Italian and Northern Renaissance, the Protestant, Catholic, and Counter Reformations, and much more.
Biographies introduces students to 50 people of the era, including Galileo Galilei, Johannes Gutenberg, Ben Jonson, and others.
Primary Sources allows students to study 18 full or excerpted speeches, diary entries, poems and documents. Also included in this reference library are photographs, maps, sidebars, further reading section, a "Words to Know" section, timeline and index.
Search for Queen Elizabeth or Shakespeare.
Search for Queen Elizabeth.
FREE Websites (Open Web)
Includes:
Queen Elizabeth I
Elizabethan Times Elizabethan Clothing
Elizabethan Era Elizabethan Theatre
Elizabethan Life Elizabethan Sports
Elizabethan Period Elizabethan Music
Elizabethan Food Old Elizabethan Recipes
Elizabethan Age The Age of Exploration
The Spanish Armada Elizabethan Dictionary
http://www.middle-ages.org.uk/medieval-london-guilds.htm (resource for occupations and Guild and more keywords, e.g., wax candles vs. tallow candles, skinner vs. medieval skynner)
http://www.larsdatter.com/sitemap.htm
These linkspages will direct you to information on a diverse array of topics relating to the material culture of the Middle Ages and Renaissance – not merely things, but occupations, clothing, animals, tools, eating-utensils … even suggestions for books which may help you learn more about such matters. (The blue widget on the right-hand side of this page will help you keep track of the latest linkspages added to this site.)
http://www.localhistories.org/tudor.html
Excellent resource for all things related to life in16th Century England under the Tudors including food, games, clothing, transport, etc. Check it out!
http://www.medieval-castle-siege-weapons.com/medieval-blacksmiths.html
All blacksmith, all the time! Duties, daily life, working inside the castle, etc.
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/shakesgen.html
http://elizabethan.org/compendium/index.html
http://elizabethanenglandlife.com/
http://elizabethan.org/sites.html (really break down potential topics even further with more resources)
www.luminarium.org/renlit/eliza.htm (very comprehensive)
http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/elizabethanengland.html
http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Annex/links/index.html
http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/northbethesdams/projects/6thGradeProjects/shakespeare/index.shtml
http://www.britainexpress.com/History/Elizabethan_life.htm
It's all here, Tudor Era and details on housing, meals, theatre, merchant class, nobility, and medieval towns.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/
(BBC history site--good stuff)
http://www.joskingston.org/LDEN/CHAP2.html
(Interesting occupation and mobility statistics)
http://www.erasofelegance.com/history/elizabethanlife.html
http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Holme-ArtInEngland/ (Art)
http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xLondon.html#Glossary (Everyday Life in England--Occupation Glossary)
http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/society/societysubj.html
(from University of Victoria and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada)
Musopen--free public domain classical music
http://www.musopen.com/
Directories
Use a directory when your topic is broad versus specific.
For example, use a directory for “Renaissance England” and search engine for “daily life elizabethan england”.
General Directories
The Open Directory Project
www.dmoz.org
Librarian’s Internet Index
www.lii.org
Internet Public Library
www.ipl.org
Specialized Directories--gateways to the Invisible Web
WWW Virtual Library
www.vlib.org
Refdesk
www.refdesk.com
IPL Ready Reference
www.ipi.org/div/subject/browse/ref00.00.00
Infomine
www.infomine.ucr.edu
BubL Link
Bubl.ac.uk
MLA Citation Sources